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A Long Hot Unholy SummerTeresa WaughIsabelle, a young girl on holiday with her family in France, disappears with a man she meets online - unaware of his troubled past and twisted sexual nature. Not knowing what's become of her, we follow Etienne as he drives frantically across the...$25.00

A Retired GentlemanAnd Other StoriesIssa J. BoulattaIssa J Boullata’s characters are emigrants to Canada and the USA from Arab countries, living with pasts that cannot be relived, with exile and loss.

How do you settle into a new life? What happens to all your old relations? How do yo...$15.00

A Woman's StoryAnnie ErnauxOn her mother's death, Annie Ernaux travels back in time to reunite Mother and Daughter, writing both movingly and quixotically "to capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy...$18.00

Abductor, TheLeila MarouaneMrs. Nayla Zeitoun has just been informed by her son Omar that she has become a grandmother for the first time. In the ensuing excitement, he mentions the baby's weight whereupon Mrs. Zeitoun flies out of the house with a handful of salt to dispe...$12.95

All That's Left to YouA novella and other storiesGhassan Kanafani; translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed; introduction by Roger AllenIt should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles… While all these writers dis...$15.00

Always Coca-ColaAlexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman

The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from Lebanon

Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine...$15.00

Another Sea, Another ShoreStories of Iranian MigrationShouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi KhorramiIn today’s world, with its often fluid national borders, many outstanding literary works have given voice to the life experience of immigrants, whose very being challenges traditional notions of national identity and culture. The recent immigra...$15.00

Those who know already the wit and wisdom of Khalid Kishtainy and who have read his syndicated newspaper columns for many years will be delighted by this collection of short stories; some sad, some erotic, but all imbued with sympathy for the dile...$22.00

As Good as It GetsSimon NolanSteve, Ward, Kelvin and Marina share an apartment in Brighton, they are all flat broke and in no hurry to make any decisions about their lives. One day Ben, a seedy friend of Steve, shows up and asks to be able to hang out for a while, he hides his b...$12.00

Ascendant, TheAlethea CroweAccording to Homer's Odyssey, the daughters of Pandareus, though innocents both nurtured and favored by goddesses, were ordained by Zeus to be tormented by the hateful Furies. No hero is sent to save them. No mutiny, no uproar, not a single prote...$36.00

At the Wall of the AlmightyFarnoosh Moshiri"I know that I'm in the hallways of El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this guard is taking me from my solitary confinement — the Black Box — to cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this...$16.00

B as in BeirutIman Humaydan Younes; translated by Max WeissForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award -Gold 2008, Translation Fiction

The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut dur...$15.00

Bahamian AnthologyCollege of the BahamasBahamian Anthology is a collection of short stories, poems and sketches depicting the vivid color and special flavor of the local landscape, people, life, styles, customs and folklore in all their diversity.

It is a fascinating p...$16.95

Balcony over the Fakihani, ALiyana Badr; translated by Peter Clark with Christopher TingleyThe title story of Liyana Badr’s remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black Septe...$12.95

Bigot HallSteve AylettWelcome to Bigot Hall, the nightmare family home most people would want to forget, but which Steve Aylett chooses to celebrate. Uncle Burst believes his face is made of pasta; the violent, grill-mouthed Uncle Snapper is confined to a tree house; Uncl...$13.99

Bilal(new ed. 2007)H.A.L. CraigFamed for his beautiful voice, Bilal is known as the first muezzin in Islam. He hears the Prophet begin his teaching and when told to beat a fellow slave for repeating Mohammad's assertion that slaves are the equal of their masters, he refus...$20.00

Bleeding of the Stone, TheIbrahim al-Koni; translated by May Jayyusi and Christopher TingleyThe moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he...$15.00

Blue Has No SouthAlex Epstein; translated by Becka Mara McKay"Their love story ended many years ago. He still writes her name as a solution to crossword puzzle clues of suitable length."

Blue PoppiesJonathan FallaIt is 1950. In a remote Tibetan village, on the border with China, Puton, a young woman, crippled and widowed in a terrifying attack, and now seen as an omen of bad luck by the villagers, meets a stranger—a young Scot, Jamie. He is in the villa...$15.00

Book of the Sultan's Seal, TheStrange Incidents from History in the City of Marsby Youssef Rakha; translated from the Arabic by Paul StarkeyWINNER OF THE 2015 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE

It’s hard to imagine a debut more thrilling than Youssef Rakha’s groundbreaking The Book of the Sultan’s Seal. The novel is made up of nine chapters, each cen...$19.95